A Northumberland MP and county councillor look back over their experiences of Christmas during 1984's Miners' Strike.

"It was the best Christmas we ever had," says Aggie Currie without hesitation. "And a lot of mining families would say the ...

FORMER miners turned out in force to hold their annual reunion in Grimethorpe last Thursday - marking the 40th anniversa...

In 1984, thousands of workers in the area's mines were in their ninth month of the bitter Miners' Strike in a desperate bid ...

Tomorrow, Tuesday November 25, the Marx Memorial Library continues its series of discussions on the lessons of the miners’ strike with John Sheppard, a striking Armthorpe miner Last week Seumas Milne, ...

Miners strike 1984: the beginning of a struggle that decided the future of many North East communities. The miners strike saw Margaret Thatcher and the Tory government lock horns with NUM ...

Special mention to Lochlan Murdoch for the fantastic work he does raising the awareness of type 1 diabetes through the charity set up in his name, and congratulations for the awards he collected at ...

Harold Walker was a man obsessed with making work safer. As this extract from a 1983 House of Commons debate on industrial ...

The Northern Echo launched a series of articles to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the miners' strike this year. The Miners’ Strike of 1984-85 was an era that changed the country and is still ...

The Northumberland backdrop has fed straight into Vera’s storylines. In the 2015 episode, “Old Wounds”, Vera investigates the ...

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